Determiners: Grade 5 ELA Worksheet

Determiners: Identifying and Using Them

Read each section carefully and follow the instructions for each question. This worksheet will help you understand and identify determiners in sentences.

Determiners are words that come before a noun to clarify what the noun refers to. They tell us whether the noun is specific or general, and how much or how many there are. Common types of determiners include:

Articles: a, an, the (e.g., a cat, an apple, the dog)

Demonstratives: this, that, these, those (e.g., this book, those shoes)

Possessives: my, your, his, her, its, our, their (e.g., my car, their house)

Quantifiers: some, any, many, few, all, both (e.g., some cookies, many friends)

1. Which word is the determiner in the following sentence?

The tall tree stood alone in the field.

Fill in the blank with the correct determiner from the choices provided.

2. I saw   interesting movie last night. (a, an, the)

Answer:  

3.   blue car belongs to my neighbor. (These, That, Any)

Answer:  

4. She offered me   cookies, but I only took a few. (many, some, both)

Answer:  

5. Write a sentence using a possessive determiner.

6. Write a sentence using a demonstrative determiner.

Read each statement and circle True or False.

7. 'Many' is an example of a quantifier determiner.

Match each determiner with its correct type.